Packington

The Swadlincote Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the the Whitwick sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
   
• The 1851 census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society (link is external). The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
   
• These are the Census Piece Numbers where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to The Holy Rood.
   
• The church building apparently dates from at least 1220.
   
• The church chancel was restored in 1908.
   
• See also the Leicestershire Church History for Packington.

• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the the Whitwick sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch registration district.

"PACKINGTON is a parish, partly in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, and partly in the western division of the hundred of Goscote, county of Leicester. The village, which is about a mile and three quarters S. by E. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, contains the parish church, dedicated to the Holy Rood; the living of which is a vicarage, in the patronage of Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart. The parish contained, (including the hamlet of Snibstone), in the year 1831, 730 persons."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

NOTE: See also the Leicestershire entry.

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• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Packington entry from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   

• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Packington from the National Gazetteer (1868).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Packington to another place.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK361146 (Lat/Lon: 52.727845, -1.466887), Packington which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• This Derbyshire portion of this parish was in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashby-de-la-Zouch petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, Packington became part of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Poorlaw Union.

The DRO has the probate of Sarah Everard of Packington from 1858.

They also hold a copy of the Will of William WARD from 1861.